We’re hosting a Have a Grow Day

Townend Community Garden

Address: Market Street,
Chapel en le Frith
SK23 0HZ

We are a fully set up community garden, with a variety of growing areas and wildlife habitats. Our mission is to provide a safe, healthy outdoor environment where local residents can meet to grow flowers and crops, or just sit and enjoy the outdoors and tranquillity. We support adults with mental health issues, physical or learning disabilities and older lonely, isolated people. Our garden is fully accessible for people with disabilities.
We aim to work in a sustainable, environmentally friendly way. We garden organically as far as possible, using different techniques in the vegetable beds - no-dig, companion planting and four-crop rotation. We keep abreast of good practice, for instance we use peat-free compost and we have researched different brands to find ones we are happy with. We make our own compost and we collect horse manure from a nearby farm, in order to ensure healthy soil and crops. We have no water on tap, so we use rainwater collected on site.

Facilities: Volunteering, Community space for hire, Picnic area, Wildlife area
Accessible? Yes
Directions:

Park in church car park, walk up the side of the church past the graveyard.

Toilets: Yes
What events and activities do you have planned for the day?

Planting for wildlife workshop, including sowing a pot of wild flower seeds to take home, plant sale, refreshments.

Will you be open on the day?

Yes, 10-12.30